Book Reviews
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Review: Please Come Off-Book by Kevin Kantor (Release 03/23/2021)
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this poetry collection. The queer reinterpretations of some of the most famous theatre works were probably my favorite part of the collection because queer and trans people deserve to be represented, in all types of stories, and
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Review: Down Comes The Night by Allison Saft (Release 03/02/2021)
I was so excited when I saw that this book was temporarily on the read now section of NetGalley. This was one of my most anticipated books of 2021 and so I couldn’t pass up the chance to get to read and review it early. Let me just say, it did not disappoint! This is
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Review: People of Pride: 25 Great LGBTQ Americans by Chase Clemesha (Release 02/01/2021)
I received an Uncorrected Proof of this book in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. This book gives kids 25 quick and simple biographies of famous Americans who belong to the LGBTQ community. All the biographies were simple but engaging, with a photo of each person included. Each biography has a short one-sentence recap
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Review: shine your icy crown by Amanda Lovelace (Release 01/26/2021)
I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this poetry collection, despite poetry not typically being my thing. I had heard great things about this author, and had seen excerpts of her work, and decided to give her newest collection a try. I will be
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Review: Roman and Jewel by Dana L. Davis (Release 01/05/2021)
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really wanted to like this book, I’m typically a sucker for a Romeo and Juliet retelling, but this book was just not my cup of tea. Jerzie felt very immature, more immature than her age of sixteen, turning seventeen
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Review: Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp (Released 09/15/2020)
The disability, neurodivergent, and trans/non-binary rep is where this book shines. As someone with EDS, the same chronic illness as Finn, I’ve never seen myself represented on the page. I’ve never seen a character that’s been allowed to be a crutch user, and face the reality that he may eventually need a wheelchair, but also
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What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis (Released 10/20/2020)
As a lover of Frida myself, I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, this book was not my cup of tea. I found it to be bland and devoid of the life that Frida herself infused into everything she did. I had gone into reading this book thinking it would a guide that used
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Review: SKYHUNTER by Marie Lu (Release 09/29/2020)
I am a huge fan of Marie Lu’s prior works and was so excited when I got the email that I had been chosen to be part of SKYHUNTER’s Street Team. Helping promote the newest book by one of my favorite authors has been such an awesome opportunity, and to top it off, I got
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Review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Release 9/1/2020)
I received an Advance Readers Copy of Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas from the publisher in a giveaway in exchange for an honest review. To start: I absolutely loved this book and would recommend it to everyone! Thomas’s care for the characters and how their culture is depicted shines through in the writing. This is
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Review: Jennifer A. Nielsen The Ascendence Trilogy
I recently was reminded that this trilogy existed, and remembered enjoying it when it had originally published while I was in middle school. While rereading this trilogy I realized that there was a good chance that I had never actually finished reading the series when it first came out and may have only read books